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I understood very early that life is a serious business. I do not remember committing any of those childish pranks that everyone keeps in his distant memory. From the age of four I was sent to the mel…
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Gabriel Arié
Places:
Davos, Switzerland
Date:
1906
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June 17, 1888 [June 29 in the Gregorian calendar]
Dear Sir:
Several days ago, I received an undated and terse postcard from one of my friends, a person close to me, H. Epstein, in which the…
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Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Zamość, Russian Empire
(Zamość, Poland)
Date:
1888
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Cornell Capa
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Brooklyn, United States of America
Date:
1955
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Our classroom was on the upper floor and in the rear of the building. Its two large windows opened on a garden which, because it could be reached only by crossing M. Shalom’s apartment, was forbidden…
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Leon Sciaky
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1946
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Friendship
It isn’t as easy as they say
Making friends right away,
I went down to the playground today,
To sit alone while others play.
The girls were having lots of fun,
Playing hopscotch and…
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Tirtsa Atar
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1976
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Johannes Buxtorf
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Basel, Swiss Confederacy
(Basel, Switzerland)
Date:
1661
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PrefaceSince through the good Hand of GOD upon me, he has not only taken Moses’s Vail from me, but even has Placed me in his Service, i.e. to Teach and Promote the Knowledge of the Hebrew Tongue at…
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Judah Monis
Places:
Boston, Kingdom of Great Britain
(Boston, United States of America)
Date:
1735
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Even in the narrative prose written by native Hebrew speakers towards the end of the 1940s, writers who hardly knew any foreign language and who were assuming positions at the center of the literary…
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Itamar Even-Zohar
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1980
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Schedule of Lectures and Cl[asses] at the Courses of Oriental StudiesDaysTimesSubjectsLecturersSaturday8–?History of the Oral Torah [i.e., early rabbinic literature]Dr. L. S. KatsenelsonSunday8–10 a.m…
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Zalman Shazar
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1911
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The Zionist movement in Pinsk expanded and developed, and some of the best [local] activists concentrated their efforts there. Activities, such as lectures, debates, and the sale of Shekels and Jewish…
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Ḥayah Weizmann-Lichtenstein
Places:
Pinsk, Russian Empire
(Pinsk, Belarus)
Date:
1904